Oscar and Golden Globe winner Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road, The Reader) stars in the title role of the HBO Miniseries presentation Mildred Pierce along with Guy Pearce (The Hurt Locker, Memento), Evan Rachel Wood (HBO's True Blood), Brian O'Byme (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead), James LeGros (Skateland, Mercy), Melissa Leo (Frozen River, The Fighter, HBO's Treme). Mare Winningham (George Wallace) and Hope Davis (HBO's In Treatment). Directed by Todd Haynes (I'm Not There, Far From Heaven) from a script by Haynes and Jon Raymond, Mildred Pierce is the epic story of a proud single mother struggling to earn her daughter's love during the Great Depression in middle-class Los Angeles. The five-part miniseries, produced in association with MGM, will follow the story laid out by James M. Cain in his 1941 novel of the same name.